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Continuing where Bush/Cheney left off in '04, it's clear that the John McCain campaign will say and do anything to "win." Their latest knowing lie, in an attempt to fool America (again): a new campaign video released today. The ad is a complete lie, and of course, they know it. But they don't care. It's politics first, country last for the McCain/Palin ticket.

The ad not only misrepresents Obama's comments about "lipstick on a pig," it also purposely misrepresents comments from Katie Couric on "sexism." Worse still, the shameless McCain/Palin campaign inaccurately displays the text of the ad on their website, furthering the misrepresentation of Couric's comments on sexism in "this election," as the actual ad says, even though the comment is represented as being on "the election" in the campaign's transcript of the ad.

Breaking it down to answer to the several purposeful lies and distortions within, here's the first part of the ad's script as posted this morning on McCain's website...

CHYRON: Sarah Palin On: Sarah Palin

GOVERNOR PALIN: Do you know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick.

CHYRON: Barack Obama On: Sarah Palin

BARACK OBAMA: Well, you know, you can, you know you can...put...uh...lipstick on a pig...it's still a pig.

First problem, Obama was very clearly not referring to Palin in his taken-wholly-out-of-context comments. Here's what he actually said:

OBAMA: Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. Except --- and so I guess his whole angle is, "Watch out, George Bush, except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove-style politics. We're really gonna shake things up in Washington." That's not change. That's just calling some --- the same thing, something different. But you know, you can --- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig.

Obama also went on to say immediately after the above: "This is a guy who supported George Bush 90% of the time. What does that say about somebody's judgment that they agree with George Bush 90% of the time?...You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it's still going to stink."

So far, among all the phony, ginned-up, opportunistic, disingenuous outrage, the McCain camp has not objected to the "old fish" comment.

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's health-care plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the early 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.

Of course, the misrepresented comments from McCain's appalling ad have been presented as a phony controversy all over the so-called "liberal media" for the last 18 hours or so. It apparently began in the Wall Street Journal, was echoed on Drudge, who posted "OBAMA: 'LIPSTICK ON A PIG, STILL A PIG" under a photo of Sarah Palin, and from there, of course, it went viral in the "liberal media" as it always does after they receive their assignments from Drudge. Fox "News," naturally, has been delighted to continue misrepresenting the comments all morning long today, never bothering to offer the actual context (as easily available to them in the previously linked video.)

The ad then goes on to show CBS' Katie Couric discussing the issue of sexism in "This Election," with a clip of Couric saying: "One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life."

Her comments, however, were actually made in June, in relation to coverage of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama. Worse still, the McCain website's transcript of the ad misleads readers into believing the comments by Couric were on "The Election," as opposed to "This Election," as the actual video ad claims. A screenshot from the actual ad is at the right. The inaccurate script, as posted misleadingly on the McCain website, continues below...

CHYRON: Katie Couric On: The Election

CBS' KATIE COURIC: One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life.

And for one last lick of dishonest desperation in the ad, the final bit of irony is found in its tagline that few in the corporate rightwing media are likely to point out. The ad obnoxiously concludes with the assertion that it's Obama who is "ready to smear."

"What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw up an outrageous ad, because they know that it’s catnip for the media."
...
"It would be funny, except the news media decided that that was the lead story yesterday."

"The McCain campaign would much rather the story be about phony and foolish diversions than about the future."

"This happens every election cycle – every four years this is what we do. We’ve got an energy crisis,...we have an education system that is not working for too many of our children and making us less competitive. We have a economy that is creating hardships for families all across America. We’ve got two wars going on – veterans coming home, not being cared for. And this is what they want to talk about. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about!"

"You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It's not the Democratic candidate; it’s not the Republican candidate. It's you the American people. Because then we go another year or another four years or another eight years without addressing the issues that matter to you."

"Enough! I don’t care what they say about me. But I love this country too much for them to take over another election with lies, and phony outrage and Swift Boat politics. Enough is enough. These are serious times and they call for a serious debate about where to take the nation..."

"Spare me the phony outrage, spare me the phony talk about change, we have real problems in this country right now."

"This is a game that we play. It is a game. It's a sport. And maybe if this wasn't such a serious time that would be okay."

He's right, of course. And so is the baby below who seems to understand it all far better than those who are foolish, selfish, and self-loathing enough to continue their support of the reprehensible McCain/Palin campaign...

The McCain campaign is clearly projecting their own feelings about ALL WOMEN... look at McCain's treatment of his first wife, his second wife, and he can't stop learing at Ms. Palin's ass, couple that together with his positions on women's issues ... he's clearly the sexist ass...

I see many here are starting to get what is really going on: the "election" has ALREADY BEEN STOLEN, Palin is now pResident. A new neocon puppet has already been ordained. EVERYTHING THE MCLAME CAMPAIGN IS DOING IS ALL PRE-SPIN. Sorry for the shouting, but all this lying, farting, cheap shots and slander of the ReThugliCons is only for the purpose of giving the corporate whore media the fodder for claiming that "see, we told you the 'Swift Boat' tactics would win out over the stupid American people." Not. Really. No. The "election " was stolen by the programmers of the electronic vote-stealing machines, as we knew it would be. Nothing could be more obvious. This band of Nazis is nothing if not consistent and predictable: if something works once (twice, three times), the WILL use it again. With no exceptions.

Today on C-SPAN during open phones after Ms. Kaufmann, the rightwing talkradio host who tried to scare up immigration fears, the hostess quoted the Christian Science Monitor to explain polling discrepancies. It read that Democratic voter registration drives are bringing in new voters that pollsters don’t count because they count only likely voters, who are those who have voted previously.
So in short the voter drives are working but not showing up in the polls.

Think hard.
The men behind the lipstick on a lie are all members at their local rainbow party gettin' the most lipstick on their poles. The dominant cultist fascist media pigs are having a half hour orgasm while the American peep-hole will eventually cum to be the one's who are at the business end of the nasty mess.

I find it interesting that the McCain noise machine immediately linked the "lipstick on a pig" comment to Palin. Do they consider her to be a prize specimen in the muck of the sty that is McCain's party?

It is fascinating, like facing a cobra in transfixed horror. The Republicans are quite masterful at this kind of manipulation. It is like a horror movie, like the entire USA has become a Franz Kafka novel.

Its the same old crap with both parties. The mainstream media whores are using this lipstick issue as a smoke screen to deflect any talk of the real pressing issues of the day. We currently are involved in two illegal wars, the economy is being destroyed by the ruling elite, the banking system is faltering, foreclosures of houses continue to rise, bankruptcies are soaring, but all is fine with Brittany Spears and the other B.S. news. The problem continues to be the Zionist controlled media.
In the meanwhile the brain dead, apathetic masses go on with their pitiful lives taking it in the rear end.
You deserve the government you get.

"We've turned into this nation of overfed clowns, riding around in clown cars, eating clown food, watching clown shows. We've become a nation of cringing, craven fuckups." James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency"

It does not matter what Obama says; the Rover boys will take something out of contaxt, twist it so that it says what it did not say, and use it as a weapon against him. It is a time-honored technique, invented years ago by Lee Atwater, who, on his deathbed, renounced it as being unfair; but, since it manifestly works, the GOP uses it until it's worn threadbare. It doesn't even help to watch what you say; the distorters could create damnation out of "Good Morning."

Since daddy Bush talked about 'pigs and lipstick' during his campaigns and Bill Clinton talked about 'pigs and lipstick' during his campaigns and little georgie talked about 'pigs and lipstick' and Edwards talked about 'pigs and lipstick' during his campaigns and McCain talked about 'pigs and lipstick' during his campaigns (at least 3 times in the past year alone), when Sarah Palin 'claimed' the lipstick at the RNC wasn't she calling herself the pig everybody was talking about?

Obama circled the statement "hey, the McCain people said I was talking about Palin when I used the word 'pig' in a sentence, what's that all about? That says more about them than it says about me. Is that like 'uppity', their side thinks 'uppity' is just fine when they call me that, but we know what that means don't we?" with a deconstruction of the syntax of LoaP when he was on Letterman. Even I tuned it out.

The people that he wants to reach do not want and may not understand a lengthy deconstruction of sentence structure and those of us that don't need the explanation just get all lock-jawed and pi**ed off when does that now.

Wooing voters with his intelligence and charm was appropriate early on and he's locked up that voter segment. At this point in this Presidential campaign he needs to grease up and jump into the mud-pit. The voters with brains will understand.

I just watched an on-line video news segment from ABC about the "lipstick on a pig" distortion by the Rethugs. They just painted it as business as usual for both parties, presented only a Rethug operative who said it was an appropriate tactic to drive the opponent off message and the segment didn't even bother to show the true context of what Obama actually said- just showing him saying "you can put lipstick on a pig" and then how the rethugs used it against him. And this despicable network will be the one's doing the Palin interviews. They are nothing more than a subtle version of Faux- cheerleaders for the Rethug party.

First thing out her mouth in the interview with Gibson was about Russia invading Georgia unprovoked. THAT WAS A BALD-FACED LIE. [Whether or not she even knows it... which is a toss-up.] He did not call her on it.